Caption with color slide: “Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio.” Photograph by John Vachon, 1942 or 1943.
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“Cabins imitating the Indian teepee for tourists along highway south of Bardstown, Kentucky.” Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
Photographed by Farm Security Administration staff photographer Marion Post Wolcott in July 1940. The photo is of Wigwam City #2, Cave City, Kentucky.
“The Wigwam Motels, also known as the “Wigwam Villages”, is a motel chain in the United States in which the rooms are built in the form of teepees, hence the name “wigwam”. It originally had seven different locations: two locations in Kentucky, a location in Alabama, another location in Florida, one in Arizona, one in Louisiana, and another one in California. They are very distinctive historic landmarks. Two of the three surviving motels are located on historic U.S. Route 66, in Holbrook, Arizona and on the city boundary between Rialto and San Bernardino, California. Wigwam Motel #2, in Cave City, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1988 under the official designation of Wigwam Village #2.
“Wigwam village #2 was built in 1937 a few miles south of the original wigwam village #1, but on US-31W in Cave City. It was built consisting of 15 wigwams used as guest rooms and a much bigger concrete and steel central structure that originally served as a restaurant. The 15 wigwams are arranged in a semi circle around a common area with playground and recreation area. Each wigwam has a paved pad to accommodate one car.
The diameter at the base of each teepee is 14 feet (4.3 m), they are 32 feet (9.8 m) in height. Behind the main room of each unit is a small bathroom with sink, toilet, and shower. In 2008, the rooms contain the original restored hickory furniture, cable TV and a window mounted air conditioner. There are no telephones to maintain the original atmosphere of the motel, though there is internet access. The restaurant is no longer in operation, but the motel is still open and welcoming guests.
“Wigwam village #2 is close to Mammoth Cave National Park … The motel is located on 601 North Dixie Hwy, Cave City, Kentucky. ” – Wikipedia
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Photograph shows store or cafe with soft drink signs: Coca-Cola, Orange-Crush, Royal Crown, Double Cola, and Dr. Pepper.
This photograph by Marion Post Wolcott, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, was shot in August 1940.
Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs .
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Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Mass., December 1940.
This photo is by Farm Security Administration photographer Jack Delano.
Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs .
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Camping in the United States has, at times, been by necessity rather than recreational choice.
This tent is in a blueberry picker camp near Little Fork, Minnesota, August 1937. It was photographed by Russell Lee, staff photographer in a U.S. agency called the Resettlement Administration (in operation 1935 – 1937).
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